Body tone exercise bricks

ABSTRACT

A body tone exercise brick includes a brick body having a receiving chamber opened upward, a bar detachably mounted in the receiving chamber of the brick body, and a pair of weight members alternatively placed in the receiving chamber of the brick body or detachably coupled to two ends of the bar when the bar is taken out from the receiving chamber of the brick body. Thus, the body tone exercise brick of the invention has a variety of exercise modes to train muscles of various portions.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates generally to exercise equipment, and morespecifically to body tone exercise bricks.

2. Description of the Related Art

A yoga brick is generally used to help a user in the practice of theyoga positions, providing support for some yoga positions where theuser's body needs to deepen stretches.

U.S. Pat. No. 7,156,791 discloses a yoga grip block, comprising one ormore block sections and a grip section that provide support and comfortin the practice of yoga exercises. However, the yoga grip block only hasfunction to practice yoga exercises such that it has fewer modes to takeexercise. Thus, the yoga grip block is difficult to train the user'smuscles of other portions.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention has been accomplished in view of the above-notedcircumstances. It is one objective of the present invention to provide abody tone exercise brick, which has a variety of exercise modes to trainuser's muscles of various portions.

To achieve this objective of the present invention, the body toneexercise brick comprises a brick body having a receiving chamber openedupward, a bar detachably mounted in the receiving chamber of the brickbody, and a pair of weight members alternatively placed in the receivingchamber of the brick body or detachably coupled to two ends of the bar.

Thus, a user not only can practice yoga exercises though the brick bodybut also can build muscles by means of a dumbbell assembled by the barand the weight members.

Further scope of applicability of the present invention will becomeapparent from the detailed description given hereinafter. However, itshould be understood that the detailed description and specificexamples, while indicating preferred embodiments of the invention, aregiven by way of illustration only, since various changes andmodifications within the spirit and scope of the invention will becomeapparent to those skilled in the art from this detailed description.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The present invention will become more fully understood from thedetailed description given herein below and the accompanying drawingswhich are given by way of illustration only, and thus are not limitativeof the present invention, and wherein:

FIG. 1 is an exploded view of the body tone exercise brick according toa preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a top view of the body tone exercise brick according to thepreferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the body tone exercise brickaccording to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, showingthat the bar is inserted in the insertion grooves of the brick body;

FIG. 4 is a schematic drawing showing that the body tone exercise brickis used for yoga positions, and

FIG. 5 is a schematic drawing showing that two body tone exercise bricksare used for push-up exercise.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Referring to FIG. 1, a body tone exercise brick 10 in accordance with apreferred embodiment of the present invention comprises a brick body 20,a bar 30 and a pair of weight members 40.

Referring to FIG. 2, the rectangular brick body 20 has a receivingchamber 22 opened upward on a center thereof, and two insertion grooves24 on left and right sides of a periphery of the receiving chamber 22.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 3, the bar 30 has two ends respectively havinga threaded section 32 and inserted in the insertion grooves 24 of thebrick body 20 so as to be located in the receiving chamber 22 of thebrick body 20.

The weight members 40 can be removably placed in the receiving chamber22 of the brick body 20. Each weight member 40 has a threaded hole 42such that the weight members 40 can be coupled to the two ends of thebar 30 to form a dumbbell 50 through the engagement of the threadedholes 42 of the weight members 40 and the threaded sections 32 of thebar 30 when the bar 30 is taken out of the receiving chamber 22 of thebrick body 20.

By means of this design, when the body tone exercise brick 10 is in use,a user can put the brick body 20 on the ground and make the bar 30 facedown, and then the user may use the brick body 20 to practice yogapositions with the support of the brick body 20, as shown in FIG. 4.

Another exercise mode of the present invention is shown in FIG. 5. Theuser may prepare a pair of body tone exercise bricks 10 and put them onthe ground to make the bars 30 face up. As a result, the user can dopush-ups by griping the bars 30 to build muscles.

Further, the user can hold the dumbbell 50 assembled by the bar 30 andthe weight members 40 to train various muscles, such as back muscles. Ifthe user doesn't want to use the dumbbell 50, he/she can easilydisassemble the weight members 40 and the bar 30 and put them in thereceiving chamber 22 of the brick body 20.

In conclusion, the body tone exercise brick 10 of the invention providesa variety of exercise modes that the user can choose to train variousmuscles.

The invention being thus described, it will be obvious that the same maybe varied in many ways. Such variations are not to be regarded as adeparture from the spirit and scope of the invention, and all suchmodifications as would be obvious to one skilled in the art are intendedto be included within the scope of the following claims.

1. A body tone exercise brick comprising: a brick body having areceiving chamber opened upward; a bar detachably mounted in thereceiving chamber of the brick body; and a pair of weight membersalternatively placed in the receiving chamber of the brick body ordetachably coupled to two ends of the bar.
 2. The body tone exercisebrick as claimed in claim 1, wherein the brick body further includes twoinsertion grooves in communication with the receiving chamber of thebrick body for insertion of the two ends of the bar.
 3. The body toneexercise brick as claimed in claim 1, wherein the two ends of the bareach have a threaded section and the weight members each have a threadedhole threaded with one of the threaded sections of the bar.